Russell Brand, who has been engaged in a three-month war of words with Fox News, was apparently scheduled to confront his nemesis Sean Hannity on his show this week, however the broadcaster reportedly cancelled the British activist at the last minute.

In response, Brand fronted an episode of his news magazine show The Trews from outside Fox News headquarters at the Rockefeller Center in midtown New York, discussing immigration and Islamophobia before security guards pounced, escorting Brand from the lot.

"We'll run this building one day," warned the comic before jumping in a car.

The actor, who is currently in the US to promote his book Revolution, had earlier hit out at Fox News during an appearance on MSNBC, labelling anchor Bill O’Reilly "a man at war as much with hemorrhoids as with immigrants.”

“British media is more nuanced,” he added, “we have more vitriol in the printed media, newspapers like The Sun… The Daily Mail, which is the Fox News in print – a newspaper that supported Hitler when he was in power and now they get as near as they can, which is the British Conservative Party”.

Brand's epic feud with Hannity began after the author told the Fox anchor he looked a Ken doll, in an epic 11-minute response to a Fox rant about Gaza.

Reacting to the clip, Brand says: "I don't mean to be petty or trivial but Hannity looks like the Ken doll from Toy Story 3."

Russell Brand In Conversation With The Huffington Post UK

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Russell Brand In Conversation With The Huffington Post UK

Russell Brand has been causing his unique variety of ripple with politicians and comedians alike over the last couple of weeks.
Brand's sitting down in a discussion with Huffington Post UK Political Director Mehdi Hasan about the big issues of the day, and you can watch the whole thing, 'A Brand New Politics', on the LIVE FEED, on this very page here at Huffington Post UK.